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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's as pretty as a Carolina Coast postcard, as warm as a New England beach in February and as romantic as a Valentine's Day TV dinner for one. Read more
Michael Phillips, At the Movies: I just did not get pulled in. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Dear John carefully distills selected elements of human experience and reduces them to a sweet and digestible syrup. It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Though Ms. Seyfried is a lovely actress, her inexperience shows in her climactic scenes, which aren't written very well to begin with, while Mr. Tatum's stolid reserve decays into dull passivity. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Mostly, this movie is about two pretty actors moodily looking at each other with their pretty eyes -- and, for those seeking a little romance at the multiplex, that's often just enough. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Part of the problem is Channing Tatum, an actor with the strengths and faults of early Sylvester Stallone: He can be a charming palooka, as in Fighting and A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, or a block of wood, albeit one carved by God's hands. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Awash in mawkish sentimentality, Dear John still will move you deeply - if you're a 12-year-old girl. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: There's predictable attraction in the clash of opposites: he Tarzan, she Jane. If only screenwriter Jamie Linden could write dialogue half as good as that. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: This terminally sappy romance delivers heartache, sacrifice, a make-out scene in the pouring rain, and not one but two autistic characters. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: There is not much point throwing Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried into a movie together if they can't devote every waking minute to making out. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Halfway through the movie, I decided a better title for this weepie contraption would be The Hurt Letter. Tatum is stolid and semi-expressive, Seyfried widens her eyes to saucer-size. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: What you end up with is indeed a big pile of goop. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Lasse Hallstrom directs with a softness that makes even combat look tranquil. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: When movie mechanics wedge into their romance, we check out. But there's enough love in this love story to make us feel for a son and his father and their attempts to connect Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: There's no real depth or texture to the characters of any sort, sentimental or otherwise, and I say that as someone who can be brought to tears by a Hallmark commercial. Read more
Melissa Anderson, L.A. Weekly: The biggest surprise here is Tatum, whose butch reticence has never been put to better use: His saddest farewell isn't to his lady but to a man even more uncommunicative than he is. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: Dear John succeeds where Sparks duds like Rodanthe crumbled because it harnesses fresher talents to pull off a comforting tale about the enduring power of love. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: There's an audience for old-fashioned romance, and Dear John will please most of it, given its attractive cast, cozy beach settings and brazenly uplifting outlook on human nature. Read more
Ian Buckwalter, NPR: What starts as a charming anachronism %u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age %u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The leads do have a strong chemistry, and Seyfried brings a spunky confidence to her role. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The uneasy combination of the World Trade Center, Sparks and schmaltzmeister director Lasse Hallstrom pushed me perilously close to nausea and diabetic shock, not to mention deep sleep. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: When Tatum and Seyfried no longer share the screen, generating heat, the movie grows as cold and lumpy as yesterday's she-crab soup. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: "Dear John: I'm in a really sappy movie based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, can you please help me!!!???" Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Lasse Hallstrom's Dear John tells the heartbreaking story of two lovely young people who fail to find happiness together because they're trapped in an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Indecently exploits 9/11 and throws in autism and canver for unscrupulous measure. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Seyfried's performance is lovely. Her character may be sweet, but she's also marvelously direct, two qualities that Seyfried holds in balance perfectly. Read more
Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If the teenage girls sitting in the preview screening were giggling at this film's awkward sentimentality and its nosedive of an ending, maybe a rewrite was in order. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Dear John fulfills its mission, which is to be a crowd-pleasing tearjerker. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: C'mon, it's the millennium, it's the electronic age, where soldiers everywhere fight with one finger on the trigger of their gun and the other on the send button of their cell phone. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: A sappy version of the old letters-from-the-trenches weepers of the 1940s that hobbles along despite the best effort of its cast and a director who ought to know better. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Mostly, the movie provides ample opportunity to admire Channing Tatum's broad shoulders and Amanda Seyfried's incandescent smile, but the narrative device that keeps them connected while geographically apart doesn't work especially well onscreen. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Even Seyfried, who otherwise makes a credible love interest, couldn't convince me -- or, by the sound of the audience's nervous laughter, anyone else in the theater -- that she had to do what she did. Read more